Leonard Hawkes
Of Counsel
Avenue des arts, 46
1000 Brussels
1000 Brussels
+32 2 274 51 88
+44 7980 637281 / +1 514-999-6196
+32 2 274 51 81
EXPERTISES
- Corporate and Commercial
- Dispute Resolution
- Distribution
- EU-Law and institutions
- IP/IT
- Restructuring & Insolvency
MARKETS
INTERNATIONAL
Professional Experience
Len Hawkes has practiced EU, International and English law from Brussels since 1984. As well as commercial law advice and drafting contracts his practice includes dispute resolution regarding competition (anti-trust), and international trade, data privacy and energy law & regulation.
Len Hawkes originally practiced law as a barrister before he re-qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and became the Brussels Partner of a City of London firm of solicitors. After which he was European Counsel in Brussels & London to a major, NY headquartered, US law firm. He is Counsel to Flinn.
Len Hawkes lectures regularly on comparative contract law.
Languages
English, French
Education
- University of Kent BA (Hons.) Law, 1979
- Barrister at Law – Inns of Court School of Law, 1980
- Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, 1993
Membership and Activities
- Member of the European Lawyers List of the Brussels’ Bar (B), since 1984
- Member of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) (EU Law, Privacy and Rights of the Individual, Mediation and Conflict Prevention and International Arbitration Commissions), since 2016
- Member of the UK Association for European Law (UKAEL), since 2017
- Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E), since 2017
- Awarded certificate for successful completion of the Oxford LawTech Education Programme (OLTEP) on AI for Lawyers, since 2025
- Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Recent Publications/Speeches
- ‘’ “Prospectives” For Future UK – EU Relations’’, Editor Newsletter of the Colloquium, Brussels School for International Studies (March 2017)
- ‘’Does applying merger control analysis give some useful insights into the ‘legal separation’ of BT and Openreach proposed by Ofcom?’’, in Practical Law (December 2016)
- “ ”Goods, Services or “Content”? The Proposed Directive on Contracts for the Supply of Digital Content to consumers”, in Digital Europe (April 2016)
